ChileValora launches debate on future employment with successful international seminar

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“No country, alone, will be able to solve the changes that are developing in the global labor markets, the idea is to gather experiences from other countries to prepare ourselves and be able to return productive workers, and thus reduce the last work. lose.” said Minister Jeanette Jara at the ChileValora International Conference, an organization responsible for the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare.

On November 20, the Conference convened Labor Markets in Transformation: Challenges and Strategies from Determining Work Skills organized by ChileValora – a public service responsible for the Ministry of Labor and Social Security – and which verifies the work skills of Chilean workers. The event addressed the role of work skills certification in future employment under the three main trends that are reshaping the world map in this case (demographic change – population age and migration -, the technological revolution and the ecological movement).

Authorities related to the field of employment and productivity were present at the international conference, from its highest authority on the matter such as the Minister of Labor and Social Welfare, Jeanette Jara, Undersecretary of Social Welfare, Claudio Reyes Barrientos; Tourism Undersecretary, Verónica Pardo Lagos; Undersecretary of the Environment, Maximiliano Proaño Ugalde; Undersecretary of Mining, Suina Chahuán Kim, Undersecretary of Tourism, Verónica Pardo Lagos; Undersecretary of the National Fund, Sebastián Vergara Tapia; the national leader of Labor, Pablo Zenteno; and the head of the ILO for the South Cone Office of Latin America, Fabio Bertranou, among others; authorities from CUT, CPC, SONAMI and Conapyme as part of the tripartite board of ChileValora, together with its executive director, Ximena Rivillo; more international speakers and experts.

As it happened, Minister Jara appreciated the opportunity to share experiences regarding work skills certification. “When we are facing such big challenges, the idea is to learn and share experiences because no country, alone, will be able to solve the changes that are developing in the labor markets of the world and which is part of the transition we are experiencing,” said the minister “The idea is to gather experiences from different countries to prepare ourselves and be able to re- turn and, with the that, reduce potential job losses and, along the way, try to generate new sources of related work,” he said.

The Conference was inaugurated with the welcoming words of Ximena Rivillo, executive director of ChileValora: “This Conference is an opportunity to communicate with the public and private world, with national and international actors, future the world of work and how a certificate is awarded. Labor skills are a tool that is put at the service, supporting workers, supporting the competitiveness of companies, contributing to the recovery of labor, a ‘ to formalize and, also, to face the challenges in the world of work in cases. technological, environmental issues and also in socio-demographic trends,” he said.

It was a very attractive point for Pablo Heinig, Argentinian and academic at ESADE Business School in Barcelona,​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ . Exponential Performance Skills (EPS), with the 11 meta-competencies to develop as an accurate formula to deal with these 3 challenges and to develop abilities for survival. In the evening, a second speaker came, Francisco Unda, Chilean-Venezuelan, founder of Clarke & Partners, a Physical Training and Cultural Change consultancy, who, together with live music, revived the hour after lunch with experiences and verbal and musical challenges for the reconstruction of the rigid form of work and the search for sympathetic and “unsustainable” work.

In this regard, Jorge Riesco, President of Sonami (National Mining Association) and vice-president of the board of directors of ChileValora, says “for us this conference is extremely important because it gives us the opportunity to finish put on and overcome the limits of ChileValora a little in what he does every day. On the one hand, learn about other realities and secondly, move the boundaries towards the future and think a little further in the projection of this institution and what can be done for employees and the work skills they have

From the working environment at the Latin American level, Fabio Bertranou, ILO Director for the Southern Cone, also reflects on the meeting: “The seminar also focuses on identifying opportunities and especially what they have to do with the abilities that people have, and seeing how these opportunities are distributed in different population groups, age, sex, etc. It is important because a strong, capable certification system that looks to the future can contribute significantly to the great challenge of developing social justice in the world of work,” he said.

For their part, the technical tables generated a lot of content from the speakers on topics such as protection and generation of employment opportunities, work skills for technological change, skills for future organizations, and knowledge verification, a key tool in the re-election of employees -work for future jobs.

“Chile has a high level of political debate about the challenges and how to deal with them. This conference has been very enriching on a personal level because there were very good speakers and an incredible organization, as always,” said Carmen Vidal, representative of the Economic and Social Council of Spain ( CES), to us at the end of the whole session, which presented the Spanish experience and the option to find innovative and sustainable situations through social communication.

Finally, the president of ChileValora’s board of directors, Andrea Marchant, said, “It is very important to have updated information about what climatic, technological and demographic changes mean for employment and this seminar seeks that , to tell what is happening in the world and in Chile.”

The whole day was accompanied by screens in audio-visual modules that transported the public to another virtual world, located in the middle of the GAM hall, as well as generating and planning brainstorming sessions with general ideas to deal with these 3 transitions, from causal and objective transitions. fun place It has already been established that the best learning happens from experience, and from the conference Labor Markets in Transformation: Challenges and Strategies from Determining Work Skills and his master, Chile Value, They are fully aware of this fact.